If your board doing a quilt... others will be board looking at the quilt,
especially judges.
Balance not perfection, beauty is not perfect.
Remember the 2/3 rule, when you have a 9-patch, a churn dash, a log cabin,
doesn't matter what the pieced block is, you can visually divide that into 1/3s,
the pieced work is 1/3, on a 9 patch the background squares within those 9, 4
are background, so let the 5 focus squares pop. When feather stitching a log
cabin, stitch on the dark side to highlight. NEVER quilt the center square of a
log cabin block, that is your focal point.
(done)When your the quilter, ask the customer what shows up for her. It's different
with everyone, if she notices a color or block, make sure that you 'don't' touch
that area, let that area 'loft' and stand out.
Stitch down the remaining areas. We had a quilt of 3 main colors, and half the
room noticed the green the other half noticed the rust.
The 2" sashing around your quilt body before your outer border, this area should
be very lightly quilted, nothing heavy, let it loft to frame the quilt.
Rule of Thumb... any space larger than a thumb, should have some quilting in it,
even corner squares (usually in your sashing) can be stitched either diagnally,
or X stitch the square. If you put diamonds in the sashing, you can stitch in
ditch to let them loft.